Sleepless in America: inadequate sleep and relationships to health and well-being of our nation's children

A Smaldone, JC Honig, MW Byrne - Pediatrics, 2007 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE. Our goal was to identify characteristics associated with inadequate sleep for a
national random sample of elementary school–aged children (6–11 years) and adolescents
(12–17 years). METHODS. Data from 68418 participants in the 2003 National Survey of
Children's Health were analyzed by using weighted bivariate and multivariate regression
models. The dependent variable was report of not getting enough sleep for a child of his or
her age≥ 1 night of the past week. Independent variables included demographic …